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Competition

Go invincible, win the season, or win one of our weekly prizes!

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You can only pick a team once at home and once away.

Here's all you need to know!

Competition — Rules & T&Cs

Entry

Entry to the 'Invincible' competition must be made before 3pm on 22th August. Entry is limited to one per Predictor. Anyone found entering multiple times is eliminated from the competition, with no buy-back and no option to rejoin.

Anyone found to be attempting to have multiple entries, Sapien Interactive LTD reserves the right to null and void any user entrees deemed be seen as ‘gaming’ or creating an unfair advantage. In the case of any such investigation, winners will be verified for authenticity of profile and Sapien Interactive LTD holds the right to not payout any of the three prize funds on offer. If our investigation finds unlawful entry has been made.

There needs to be a minimum of 1,000 users for the £1,000. If less the prize will be £1 per user.

Entry is permitted to all free to play competitions to users stipulated by the relevant ‘App Store’ and ‘Google Play’ store used by the Predictor “user” to access the Bootbag app. *

How picks work

Picks are fixture-based, not team-based: each week you back a team to win a specific match.

  • Pick the winners of 3 fixtures each game week — a flat three, whatever the mix of leagues that week.
  • One team per fixture. Three picks means three different fixtures.
  • Any fixture in any league is eligible. All five leagues — Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and the WSL — are open every week. Additional leagues purchased or unlocked add additional leagues and teams to pick from available.
  • Picks are sent privately, so no other Predictor can see which clubs you've selected.

Club spend

A club can be picked twice a season — once at home, once away.

These are two independent slots:

  • Backing a club at home doesn't touch its away slot, and vice versa.
  • Both slots can be spent in the same game week if the club plays home and away fixtures in that week.
  • Slots don't reset mid-season — once spent, a slot is gone for the rest of the season. They do reset at the start of each new season.
  • If a club has no fixture in a given week, its slots simply carry over unspent.

Deadline

Picks lock 2 hours before the first fixture of the game week — one deadline covers all three picks, regardless of which day each fixture falls on.

Scoring

Each pick scores as follows. A defeat scores nothing — there's no way for a pick to go negative.

Points = result + (2 × goal difference) + bonuses (a loss always scores 0)

Event

Score

Result

Win = 3pts, Draw = 1pt, Loss = 0

Goal Difference

+2pts per goal of your team's winning margin (0 on a draw)

Clean Sheet

+1pt opponent didn't score

Penalty Save

+1pt your team's keeper saved a penalty

Clean Game

+1pt your team picked up no cards at all, yellow or red

Everything is linked to the team you backed — their goals, their clean sheet, their keeper, their cards. What the opponent does is irrelevant.

A game week's score is the sum of that week's three picks.

Freeze

At half-time, you may freeze one game per week and bank that fixture's score exactly as it stands at the break — result, doubled margin, and all three bonuses, judged on the first half only.

  • Offered once, at the half-time break — not a continuous live option.
  • One freeze per game week, on a fixture you've picked.
  • Once frozen, it's locked in: nothing that happens in the second half can change it, for better or worse.
  • Freezing a fixture you're losing at half-time banks 0 — there's never a reason to do this.
  • A freeze can't be undone, and a fixture can only be frozen once.

Postponed or suspended fixtures

If one of your fixtures is suspended or postponed after picks have locked:

  • The pick scores +1 — a neutral value.
  • The club's slot is refunded and can be picked again later in the season.
  • It does not count as a loss, so it doesn't eliminate you from Invincible and doesn't break a win streak.

A fixture already known to be postponed before picks open can't be selected.

Go 'Invincible'

The competition runs the full season — 38 game weeks (GW0–GW41), so up to 114 individual picks (3 per week) per Predictor.

  • You stay in as long as none of your picks records a loss. Wins and draws both keep you alive.
  • The moment one of your three weekly picks loses, you're eliminated — automatically, with no buy-back.
  • A postponed or suspended fixture (see game rules for full details) never eliminates you.
  • Remaining Predictors are listed in the weekly newsletter throughout the season.

Weekly prize

£1,000 to the Predictor with the most points in the game week.

If 5 weeks are rollover. The winners from weeks 1-5 will split the pot

  • Standings are ranked purely on points. There's no tie-break statistical ladder — if two or more Predictors finish level, they share the same position and split the £1,000 evenly between them.
  • Nothing rolls over to the following week.
  • After 5 rounds of rollover (£5,000), a winner or winners(s) e.g. same stats will split the prize

Season prizes

  • Season winner (guaranteed): the Predictor with the most points across all 42 game weeks wins £10,000 cash. Places 2–6 win Champions League tickets and accommodation.**
  • Season-ending Invincible prize: £1,000,000 for any Predictor still standing after all 114 picks across the 38-week season — i.e. a season with no losing pick.
  • If several Predictors are still Invincible at the end of the season, or are tied on points for the season prize, they share the position and split the prize evenly — there's no tie-break ladder here either.

If Predictors end on the same score, £10,000 prize will be split between winners

Standings

Tables show

Pos · Predictor · GF · GD · Pts

Other Predictors can see your points and goal data, but never your private picks or profile.

Winner announcement

Weekly winners are verified on or after 23:59 UK on the Sunday of the game week. Bootbag (Sapien Interactive) will contact the winner directly and transfer the prize by bank transfer. The season prize follows the same process, verified on or after the Sunday of the final game week.

* All entrances found to be flashing submitting their date of birth at sign up will be removed from the competition. Any users under 18 require consent from their parents or guardians to sign up. It is their responsibility to ensure their child or children correctly sign up to Bootbag to limit exposure to products and promotions of advertisers deemed as 18+ content. Sapien interactive will do their utmost to gate any odds and affiliate marketing for third parties behind an 18+ parental wall provided by the Predictor ”user” at sign up.

** If Sapien Interactive LTD are unable to complete the season due to issues out side of our control or experience operating difficulties. Sapien Interactive LTD reserve the right not to payout due to incomplete Season of 38 weeks.